1. EVERYONE DISCIPLING The Task The Tool The Team The Target

2. EVERYONE DISCIPLING The Target – Everyone Mature in Christ Colossians 1:24-29

3. 1. The What – everyone mature in Christ (v28) 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

4. 1. The What – everyone mature in Christ (v28) 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 2:6-7

5. 1. The What – everyone mature in Christ (v28) 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 3:5-8

6. 1. The What – everyone mature in Christ (v28) 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 3:12-14

7. 1. The What – everyone mature in Christ (v28) 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard 1:21-23

8. 2. The How – everyone discipling (v28) 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

9. 2. The How – everyone discipling (v28) 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

10. 2. The How – everyone discipling (v28) 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

11. 2. The How – everyone discipling (v28) 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

12. 2. The How – everyone discipling (v28) 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 3:16 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. Matt 28:20

13. 2. The How – everyone discipling (v28) 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 3:16 Paul > Tim > Faithful people > Others >

14. 2. The How – everyone discipling (v28) Paul > Tim > Faithful people > Others > 1 > 2 > 4 > 8 > 1 > 3 > 9 > 27 > 1 > 4 > 16 > 64 >

15. 3. The Work and the power (v29) 29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me. 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, 20 ….. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:20

17. Colossians 1:24-29 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, 25 of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, 26 the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.

18. Colossians 1:24-29 27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.